My pleasure! I appreciate that. Hive has become such a big part of my life in the last, soon-to-be, nine years. My days of being a regularly trending author on here seem to be behind me now but Hive still really means a lot to me. I've seen it at its worst and at its best—how it can change lives for the better. A lot of us who've been around for a while can see Hive's untapped/underutilized potential and that can be frustrating sometimes. For all of the benefits that decentralization affords sometimes lack of an agreement of a cohesive vision of the future is its Achilles heel.
As a reader I share all four of those metrics with you. There are certain authors on Hive that I really enjoy reading and try to support as much as I can (@zirochka, @honeydue, @meesterboom, @bozz, @nancybriti1, @dbooster, and many more).
Thanks for the suggestions, I was following a large number of these names already, but a few, I was not :) I've added them to my list.
I don't even think that there's a cohesive vision at any real organisation, and it could be argued that the disorganisation is what inevitably leads to progress.
If everyone blindly followed the same goal, that is the only outcome that would be achieved. If numerous people have different goals, then well, perhaps one, or many of them would be achieved.
But the problem lies (in traditional places as well) - where multiple people are working toward the same goal in isolation of one another.
You're welcome! There are so many writers that I regularly try to keep up with and support...life sometimes gets in the way though.
Yeah, that is a good point about decentralization. If we had a centralized power structure there probably wouldn't be all of these front-ends and different projects being built on the Hive blockchain. Development might have been more focused but only in the ways in which the few in power wish. Government bureaucracy is a good example of this. On the flip-side, I've seen how many times the platform has devolved into periods of chaos and bickering and I feel like that's held the overall progress back but, I guess this is the price we pay for the freedoms of decentralization.
Thank you very much for your support, Eric. I really appreciate it. I think beyond the financial incentive we may have at Hive, it encourages us to do what we love here: writing, crafting, reviewing. Hive is a museum where you can exhibit what you do. Not to mention, there is the opportunity to meet people from other latitudes, talented, with whom you share interests and who become your friends and even family. I value those connections very much. A hug for you
I love the statement that "Hive is a museum". It is a museum of all of its authors. :) A museum where you can never tear down exhibitions of the past because they're now uncomfortable or no longer trendy.
It's a true record of what people elect to intentionally commit to their own exhibit - which no doubt sculpts their character.
And where there is room for everything and everyone. A museum where no one can tell us what art is: we ourselves invented the terms. Greetings and thank you for your answer.🌺